Features Society 06 April 2018
Round-up: a short guide to the declaration of cyborg rights
What's with all the trouble over human and animal rights, have we given enough thought to cyborg rights?
Attention receptors at Cosmos have been activated by the case of self-actualised cybernetic organism Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow (aka Mr Meow-Meow, or Meow to his friends). The Sydney scientist, train commuter and committed ‘biohacker’ has discovered the latter two things are hard to combine. It has led to a legal showdown heralded as ‘Australia’s first cyborg rights case’, and the world’s second.
Meow-Meow’s claim to cyborg persecution stems from modding his travel smart card. He cut out its chip, encased in it biocompatible plastic and had a professional piercer insert it under the skin of his hand. One way, certainly, to ensure he always had his pass at hand.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/society/round-up-a-short-guide-to-cyborg-rights
